"Neanderthals Resorted to Cannibalism in the..." Topic

… Face of Climate Change.

"We know that Neanderthals were carnivores, with a diet that consisted primarily—if not exclusively—of meat.

But a new study by researchers in France suggests that around 120,000 years ago, when a period of sudden climate change wiped out many of the animals who made up their food supply, some Neanderthals resorted to cannibalism.

In the 1990s, the remains of six Neanderthals were found in Baume Moula-Guercy, a small cave in the Rhône valley in southern France. The remains, which belonged to two adults, two adolescents and two children, showed many of the tell-tale signs of cannibalism: according to Cosmos, the bodies had been completely dismembered, and the bones showed both cut marks left by stone tools and bite marks resembling ones left by Neanderthal, rather than animal, teeth…."
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They probably weren't eaten by anyone they knew…

So?
Kill all their descendants?

The article isn't suggesting anyone do anything. There were allegedly three major 'groups' of Neanderthal. The first who some think were not the knuckle-draggers imagined in our media, but smarter and more capable with a high degree of technology for the time. Then something happened to Neanderthal culture and they lost some technology which became the second group. They were not as successful as their earlier ancestors. Then a third group they call the hybrids migrated in and changed things.

The article is theorizing that climate change was the catalyst for the 'regression'.

Typical History Channel nonsense. First off, the "diet that consisted primarily—if not exclusively—of meat" theory has been long disproven, as much as the snake-oil promoters of the Paleo Diet could wish otherwise.

Second, "climate change" is the current pseudo-intellectual explanation for nearly everything.

Glup!….

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Armand